You Can't Please Everybody, Man.

There's A Different Physiology Happening Between The Sound Waves And The Body That Doesn't Happen With Music Playing Off The Computer. About Five Years Ago, I Got A Turntable That Hooks Up To Your Computer, And I Put The Vinyl In There And I Listened To It Back-to-back With A Cd, And It Didn't Even Compare. But People Don't Have Time To Go Track Down Vinyl, Lower It In, All That. And They Probably Don't Care. It's Hard To Make Music Knowing That It's Not Going To Be Received By The Listener In The Way That It Should Be.

There's A Perception That If An Artist Produces Another Artist, They're Going To Imprint On Them. But I'm The Opposite. I Want To Hear That Artist; I Don't Want To Hear Me - That's The Last Thing I Want To Hear. There Are A Lot Of Technical Studio Things I've Learned Or Figured Out, And I Feel Like I Could Use Those Things To Help Other People With What They're Doing.

Sometimes Things In Life Take A Few Years To Digest, And They Find Their Way Into The Work Later On. Sometimes I'm Writing About Things From Eight Years Ago-they Just Took A Long Time To Distill And Come Out In The Appropriate Way.

I Think Everybody Should Just Turn Off Their Tv Machines And Make Up Their Own Songs About Whatever Comes To Mind-their Couch, Their Friends Their Loaves Of Bread. Everybody's Got Their Own Songs. There Should Be So Many Songs Out There That It All Turns Into One Big Sound And We Can Put The Whole Thing Into A Pickup Truck And Let It Roll Off The Edge Of The Grand Canyon.

The Only Way I Was Allowed To Play Was By Convincing Bands To Let Me Do A Few Songs While They Set Up. That Went On For Years.